comments (21)

I am so glad we came in time and saved the City, you should see the prints that were left in the brick, her hands-prints are still there.... the boy and the dyke, I heard that story for the first time when I was in the USA in 1975.... very unknown to me back then and a lot of Dutch people. It is an American tale. We do have a monument now... just for tourists http://www.bootjesgek.nl/2011/09/hansje-brinker-op-afsluitdijk/

Bill Phillips: I remember you telling us that once, I think you said the author had never even been to the Netherlands!

My first thought is also that she has been living too long in Holland and thinks she is inspecting a dyke, while Astrid tries to remind her that not everything emanating from the US about Holland is the truth.
Second thought is that she is at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem - I mean, just look at her facial expression.